Overview: Penicillin is an antibiotic that is used to treat bacterial infections. It kills certain types of bacteria by blocking their ability to create their cell wall. The most common side ...

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Penicillin, on the other hand, seems to be free from many of these difficulties and at the same time is extremely effective against the pneumococcus.

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Penicillin was still making news last week. In Britain, its discoverer and chief developer, Professors Alexander Fleming and Howard W. Florey (TIME, May 15), were knighted by King George VI. Sir ...

America has been, for generations, the envy of the world in terms of its medical research breakthroughs. From the development of penicillin in the early 1940s, to Jonas Salk’s polio ...

Penicillin has since saved more than 80 million lives. In 1945, Fleming, Florey and Chain received the Nobel Prize for their contributions to penicillin’s discovery and applications.

From Penicillin to Cancer Treatments. Our modern understanding of antibiotics, especially penicillin, has surged due to military research funding.